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An odd sales pitch to call your own brand mediocre hah.

It’s still very much a thing over here, too, but not so much with the mainstream. The so-called “alt-right” who are responsible for riots in Charlottesville, Virginia and Portland, Oregon among other cities are extremely anti-Semitic, and they definitely have a presence online and in fringe culture, but they’re not so much influencing elections. That said, few things bother me more than when people try to equate antisemitism in this country with systemic racism towards black and brown folks. They’re not even on a remotely level playing field.

Hopefully give us that jolt that having a new manager tends to give in order to win a few points towards the end of the season. I’m not advocating for his sacking, but we’d pretty much have to lose out through March to be in that position, and if we can’t win a match before April, I’d be pretty worried we wouldn’t win anything in the last six, either without a major change. Relegation is far from likely at this point, but if it becomes more likely, we’ll need to do everything in our power to stave it off.

Race absolutely played a part, but Republicans are Zionists, so being of the Jewish race is far less an issue for them than being brown.

Meh. Anti-semitism and anti-agnosticism may be pretty equal at this point. Church attendance has dropped rapidly over the last couple decades, as my out of work pastor father could tell you. We’re down to 37% weekly attendees (it’s a miracle), and while some cultural religious non-attendees would still never vote for an atheist or agnostic, I personally know a bunch of Christians who would rather vote for someone of another religion. It’s not a non-issue, but it’s not a disqualifier anymore I don’t think.

I like him from a 10-minute perusal of his campaign page. A lot really. That said, context is everything.

Unless we’re in a bonafide relegation battle at the very beginning of April (with 6 matches left to play), there’s no way we can sack him.

Slightly off-topic, but this is a primary reason why I think it’s so important (crucial even) to elect someone to the far left and stop pandering to moderates who are burdened by the wills of corporate interest groups, who can’t help but put their bottom lines above environmental issues: http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/book-excerpt-the-uninhabitable-earth-david-wallace-wells.html

I used to referee kids’ basketball when I was in high school (I was 14 or so), and I once nearly ejected a coach for cursing loudly and profusely at his own two 9-10 year old sons who were on the team. I gave him two warnings and a technical foul, at which point he finally shut up. He ended up re-marrying to a good friend of my mom’s, but fortunately we were long gone by then.

Ever the moderate you are, haha. I’ll vote for pretty much whoever the hell dems end up nominating, but I really do hope it’s someone who brings some fresh ideas to the office, as we haven’t had a truly progressive president since Carter.

Not sure who this would be other than, say Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, but I’m also not about to advocate putting someone as divisive AOC on a ticket, as much as I like her.

Cardiff 0 - 2 Everton Richarlison

I completely disagree. Davies lacked every bit of quality that he showed the last two matches. He was back to the hard worker with no product that we all expect him to be. Every ball was too heavily weighted and you could see that he couldn’t get anything he wanted to come off for him today. Hopefully he’ll be better again next match after some rest.

Zouma as he got his head to everything and even gave us our best two chances offensively.

Well that was shit. Zouma and Gana the only two who played well in my opinion. Both likely off in the summer. Great.

Should never have been their ball anyway as Pickford didn’t get a touch on the ball before. Shit officiating again costing us.

Not good but not bad. The problem is that we don’t look much like scoring. All our chances have been half chances with comfortable saves from Foster, the best one probably coming from the glancing header by Zouma. Tosun is working hard and creating but every shot he’s taken has been directly at Foster.

Anybody find a working stream for this yet? Could use a friendly DM if so.

I don’t think anyone on this site thinks Silva is killing it right now. Results obviously say otherwise, and his set piece statistics are abysmal. I know I think his set piece tactics are absolutely shit, and I would imagine pretty much everyone else on this forum thinks so, too. Whether or not he’s doing a great job now is not the point. The point is that if we continue to have a revolving door of managers, no one will ever be able to come in and settle the squad, as it will continue to be an absolute hodgepodge clusterfuck of a squad. Establishing a winning culture can take time in any sport in any league, and is magnified even more in a league that is both the world’s biggest stage and a sport that relies so much on mentality. It comes down to expectations and I think the majority of us happen to be a bit more realistic in our expectations than is anyone who is currently calling for Silva’s head.

Watford 1 - 2 Everton Davies

He should definitely keep the midfield 3, but Walcott for me should be nowhere near the starting line-up. Bring on Richarlison or Lookman and otherwise unchanged.

Probably not, but still not good to see the lack of communication.

Kenny MOTM. Davies played well. Gomes was effective but quiet, as was his replacement in Sigurdsson. Tosun a nuisance when he came on. Pickford, Zouma and Gana all with mixed games, each making a couple key stops but also crucial mistakes (leading to goals in the case of the latter two). DCL was mostly anonymous, though that has more to do with how City control possession than anything else. Bernard solid but didn’t offer anything very creative. Digne the same. Keane, Walcott and Richarlison all very poor.

We are comical. Zouma just blocks off Pickford from making that final save.

The officiating has once again been a joke, as it is so often against us.